She listens to her 12-year-old son and his friends as they discuss the novels that their teachers have told them to read over the summer. The boys don’t like them. They seem, in fact, to hate them. The books that her son, Alex, and his friends are compelled to read are highly regarded by teachers…
Exhibit A: vegetable (adj.) c.1400, “living and growing as a plant,” from O.Fr. vegetable “living, fit to live,” from M.L. vegetabilis “growing, flourishing,” from L.L. vegetabilis “animating, enlivening,” from L. vegetare “to enliven,” from vegetus “vigorous, active,” from vegere “to be alive, active, to quicken,” from PIE *weg- “be strong, lively,” related to watch (v.),…
New media, he said, breaks down the economic model of the business he has worked in all these years. “This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur,” Mr. Jarvis said. —Tania Ralli —A Journalist and Blogger Tries Teaching (New York Times) Our academic dean sent…
An infant born last month to a severely brain-damaged woman has died after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine, the family said Monday. —Matthew Barakat —Baby Born to Brain-Dead Va. Woman Dies (AP|MyWay) Very sad. Similar:Looking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)CultureLGN Launches Quandary to Develop Ethical Thinking through PlayThe…
ALGERNON Do you really keep a diary? I’d give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl’s record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will…
She says one of the most powerful facilities in weblogs is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else’s work on their own blog. They use the ‘TrackBack’ tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it. “It alerts the original author that someone…
Infidelity is genetic, say scientists. Electricity allergy real, says researcher. I’ve been collecting “scientists have found the formula for” stories since last summer, carefully pinning them into glass specimen cases, in preparation for my debut paper on the subject. So far I have captured the formulae for: the perfect way to eat ice cream (AxTpxTm/FtxAt…
Because Katrina scattered Tulane students across the nation like dandelion spores, Whiteside hopes that interest might grow near colleges from New York to California that have taken in Tulane students. ?We might ask some of our students in other places to visit high schools with us,? he said. He also hopes that from the wreckage,…
Rami Chami, a graduate student entering Tulane University, was among those who sought refuge in the Superdome. Chami was formerly an editor at the Indiana Daily Student, and has written a three-part series for the paper about the experience. “The field before us, which would have been ideal to lay down on was empty, but…
Flush with the necessities, we offered food and water to passing families and individuals. Many decided to stay and join us. Our encampment grew to 80 or 90 people. From a woman with a battery powered radio we learned that the media was talking about us. Up in full view on the freeway, every relief…
The faculty members contend that buildings that have been erected on campus over the last two decades have done a disservice to the Jeffersonian style — Thomas Jefferson founded the university in 1819 and designed the original campus – by attempting to make look-alikes and by paying too little attention to the use of buildings.…
Two secretaries at one of Sydney’s top law firms have been sacked after a catty email exchange that was circulated around the city’s legal and financial district. —Secretaries sacked after cyber brawl (News.com.au) Think before you push “send”. Think before you blog. Think before you write. Think before you talk. Different technologies, same lesson. Similar:Just remember:…
I can’t write about my work. Why? Because it is coming out in tomorrow’s edition. I can’t write about my personal life. Why? Because I’ve already given away -way- too much. I can’t give my opinion about current events. Why? Because I’m supposed to be this objective journalist. I’ve reached a point in my blogger…
Even if you’re squeaky clean, an employer still could find dirt attached to your name — if someone with the same name is out there ranting on Nazi-type sites or proposing odd activities with orangutans. —Patricia Kitchen —Expect recruiters to Google you for ”digital dirt” (Newsday|Seattle Times) Thanks, Katie, for suggesting this story. Similar:In July 1999,…
The statistical tests for uncovering job discrimination assume that men are not innately different from women, blacks from whites, older people from younger people, homosexuals from heterosexuals, Latinos from Anglos, in ways that can legitimately affect employment decisions. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 assumes that women are no different from men in…
The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events. Traffic to the multilingual network of sites has grown 154 percent over the past year, according to research firm Hitwise.…
“I got this cool tape off eBay containing four episodes of the TV show The New Scooby-Doo Movies?not the original CBS Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! show, but the even worse one that came out a few years later, the one with Scooby-Dum and Scooby-Dear, and all these really lame minor-celebrity guest stars like Tim Conway…
Is this a blogger which I see before me? (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) The other day I read a kid’s version of Macbeth to my son (age 7). It’s William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (retold by Bruce Coville / pictures by Gary Kelley). A couple nights later, instead of the science-fiction paperback we’ve been ploughing through for weeks, my…
Cyril Griglak, 96, of Perryopolis, continues to add to his backyard plaster zoo of 22 creatures that he started in his early 80s. He said his hardest project yet — a rhinoceros — is in the making. It’s difficult, he said, because “it’s real big.” —Amanda Cochran —Author finds success with ‘Weird’ tales (Tribune-Review ) I…
The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDA’s are to expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. —The PocketMod It is a folded-up piece of paper, but such a cool piece of…